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Illustrated memoir of an eventful expedition into Central America, resulting in the discovery of the idolatrous city of Iximaya : in an unexplored region, and the possession of two remarkable Aztec children, Maximo (the boy) and Bartola (the girl), descendants and specimen of the sacerdotal caste (now nearly extinct), of the acnient Aztec founders of the ruined temples of that country

by: Velasquez, Pedro; Stephens, John Lloyd, 1805-1852

Publication date: 1860

Topics: Expeditions, Anthropology

Publisher: New York : Wynkoop, Hallenbeck & Thomas

Collection: medicalheritagelibrary; medicineintheamericas; usnationallibraryofmedicine; americana

Contributor: U.S. National Library of Medicine

Language: English

"Pedro Velasquez" is a fictitious author; text amd illustrations based on Stephens

Revised ed. of "Memoir of an eventful expedition ... New York, 1850," purporting to be taken from the journal kept by Velasquez while on the expedition said to have resulted in the finding of the two "Aztec children."

The Spanish original of the above and its author are myths.--Cf. Sabin 98812

Includes a few extracts from Stephens' "Incidents of travel in Central America."

Condition reviewed

digitized